Elsen again — no, the thing is… I don’t know how familiar you are with “OFF” but Elsen aren’t very… “exciting.” Basically they kinda just take orders. And I’m starting to realize that the main reason I act so vocally eccentric is because people have always told me that it’s “better to stand out.” I don’t -like- standing out! I’m just doing it because I’m “supposed” to. So either way I’m still taking orders… I just feel like a decade plus of misconceptions is too much to apologize for.

I don’t really see what you have to apologize for, personally. But then, I don’t really see a way out of your situation either. I…

0h, uh… c00l. Uh, I’ve g0t a wh0le bunch 0f headmates, it’s kinda weird actually. S0mething we’ve talked ab0ut is their interacti0n with the w0rld. After discussi0n, 0ne 0f them (a girl named BeckySarah) explained that I (the 0ne wh0 this b0dy 0riginally bel0nged t0) act as a buffer between them and the real w0rld. When they interact with the 0utside w0rld, we “merge” and bec0me 0ne in s0me ways. At this p0int it’s pretty much imp0ssible t0 tell wh0’s wh0.

Are you familiar with Multiplicity/Plurality? It sounds to me like you’re a median system. http://astraeasweb.net/plural/glossary.html

so uh a few days ago i think i awakened as an Elsen from OFF and it explains SO much about myself, but the thing is it also means that a huge chunk of my “personality” was just a front so people didn’t see my (extremely dull and persuadable) inner self, and now i’m flipping back and forth between denial and acceptance because on one hand i feel so -right- accepting it but on the other this will offput a lot of people because i’ve been acting as “the outgoing eccentric” for a decade. advice?

I feel conflicted in the advice I should give you, my friend, so I’m afraid I may not be as helpful as you might wish.…

Several questions for you today. 1). Do you have any running theories on what happens to headmates when they leave, or why they leave? 2). Can a headmate choose to leave of its own accord? 3). Do you think it’s possible that once a headmate leaves, it can take up residence with someone else on this plane and timeline? Not talking about duplicates of the same person showing up in multiple people, but rather the same bond. Have you ever seen that happen?

1) There are many differing theories. For my part, I have had headmates vanish and then return months or years later. In this case, they…

How do you feel about the Tulpa community/phenomenon? I’m otherkin (not fictionkin) and recently became a tulpamancer as well. I think it’s all pretty cool. Some people in the Tulpa community have compared the Tulpa phenomenon to soulbonding — some ‘mancers even have tulpae of fictional characters. I’m curious about what soulbonders think of the comparison or the tulpa phenomenon in general.

I am actually quite familiar with the tulpa phenomenon, and have casually acquainted myself with the community. I’m not surprised that some compare tulpa and…

I think I might be Fictionkin. I never really truly understood what fictionkin was until people began to ask me if I was fictionkin with the character I now believe I am, and I researched it. It makes me kinda uneasy, because I’ve talked about fictionkin with friends and I know they dont think its a thing so I’m getting nervous about it. Part of me hopes I’m just going through a lil bit of a phase but I think I’ve always identified with the character,,, I dunno… I’m confused.

Discovering that you’re fictionkin can be a scary and confusing thing, especially when your local friends don’t understand or believe you. My advice for now…

I’m fictionkin for a race called genomes from ff9 like idk how to explain it but theres an incredibly deep connection it’s been there for 3 years and i could never explain it and why i felt so at… home playing ff9 and i’m honestly wondering if thats normal?? i mean i can’t really specify a character but theres something there tho the one i feel closest to is also of that race maybe we knew each other..? idk it’s very confusing i’m sorry ;;;

It is absolutely normal to associate as a member of a fictional race, rather than as a specific character. This happens a lot to pokekin…

hi! i’m a polykin and i’ve been pretty okay and comfortable with all of my kintypes. recently though, i’ve had a really strong connection to sephiroth from final fantasy 7 that feels a lot like a kin connection. i don’t identify as any other ‘evil’ characters and i’m worried. i’m not exactly sure what about but there’s this sense of dread that kinda comes along with seeing all the misery he caused and also going “that’s me, i did that.” i just don’t know what to do about this tbh

Funnily enough historically a lot of kin have connections to a Sephiroth. There used to a thread on livejournal about how just about every fictionkin/person…

I think the person that complained about the “are fictionkin crazy” article misunderstood the point you were trying to make. What I took from it is that you weren’t saying ‘kin can’t have mental illnesses — you were saying that BEING ‘KIN is not a mental illness, nor is it indicative of having one. You can be mentally ill and ‘kin. Being ‘kin does not make you mentally ill. Separate things.

Exactly my point, the two are entirely separate.

um i’m really bothered by the page about fictionkin being “cr-zy” (i’m censoring it because though i am mentally ill, it is an ableist slur that is used to target those with mental illnesses different than the ones i have and if someone is neurotypical than they definitely shouldn’t be using that word). a lot of things on the page are ableist. it seems to be throwing mentally ill kin under the bus and implying that those who are kin for psychological reasons aren’t as valid as spiritual kin.

I am sorry you are bothered. That page was written nearly 10 years ago, and is not entirely how I would phrase things today. That…

Hi! Sorry to bother you but otaku is actually a derogatory term in Japan, so I don’t know if you’d like to continue calling yourself otakukin. unu; Perhaps use a term like “animekin” or something? I’m not trying to hate, just informing you! I don’t want you to insult yourself without realizing it!

Hi. Thanks for writing. I’ve been kin for ten years and know very well what otaku means. In the beginning, we called ourselves otakukin, and…